Sonny Software

Hi, I never use JSTOR personally but over on the Scrivener forums a user who was trying different reference managers said that JSTOR doesn't work in Bookends when he was trialling it (so he moved over to Zotero). I enabled all three JSTOR import filters and gave it a quick test:

My test search term is "corticothalamic feedback" which gives 110 results in the normal JSTOR web browser interface — https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSea ... group=none

If I use the custom JSTOR.fltr I get no results returned. If I go to JSTOR in Bookends Browser, I cannot auto-import any references (the little "Import" icon doesn't highlight), and if I try to "cite this item" (button on the web page) to save the references as a RIS it doesn't get picked up by bookends browser. In a normal web browser I can save the RIS and get it to open automatically in my browser, which seems the easiest way to get an item from JSTOR.

EDIT: oh, you can use a JSTOR ID with quick add, that would be even quicker...

There are a number of things going on here.

1. The direct JSTOR search uses the JSTOR APIs. Bookends is just reporting what JSTOR returns. You can test this yourself.

https://www.jstor.org/action/doXmlSearch?

I've written to JSTOR tech support, we'll see what they say.

2. JSTOR has updated their HTML output, which broke the detection of references and, once I fixed that, the import of important metadata. I've updated the JSTOR functions to deal with these changes made by JSTOR and have made a silent update. You can download Bookends 13.1.5 again and try JSTOR in Bookends Browser.

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon, you're a star! I can confirm the new Bookends browser is now finding reference metadata for JSTOR; and the API is not working on JSTORs side, I'll let that potential user know...

After contacting JSTOR tech support, the direct search seems to be working now.

Jon
Sonny Software